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The Instant Camera comes with the Summer Pack DLC.
What one batch takes.
Gears
Metal Fragments
The same recipe expanded until every line is something you gather, smelt or loot.
Metal Fragments
Scrap
Gears
Metal Fragments
Copy it, then hold Shift and click Paste (JSON) in the conveyor, in game.
[
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 1,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "gears"
},
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 75,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "metal.fragments"
}
]
No workbench, 15s, yields 1
Faster at a higher workbench: 7.5s at Workbench Level 1, 3.75s at Workbench Level 2 or 3.
The Instant Camera blueprint comes with the Summer Pack DLC, so owners craft it without researching it. Researching it anyway costs 10 scrap at a Research Table.
A repair bench charges 20% of the recipe to fix a broken item, less when it is only worn. A component in the recipe is charged as the first ingredient of its own recipe instead, or not at all when it has no recipe.
What the Instant Camera gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 75% Gears, 56 + 25% Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 60% Gears, 45 Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler | 50% | 50% Gears, 37 + 50% Metal Fragments |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 40% Gears, 30 Metal Fragments |
The Instant Camera breaks down into Gears and Metal Fragments.
A recycler takes one at a time.
Figures are for one item in perfect condition. Each recycler’s name opens its full table at this item. “56 + 25%” means 56 every time and a 25% chance of one more, and a percentage alone is the chance of getting one.
In Rust, Instant Camera is a tool in the Tools category (item ID #-2001260025, console shortname tool.instant_camera). In active play, it follows standard server rules for tool gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 1 hour.
An instant camera. Take photos with primary fire, zoom in and out with secondary fire, and change focus mode with reload.
Crafting Instant Camera in Rust takes 15 seconds by hand without a workbench, with all ballistics, crafting, and durability values read from the Rust game files. Shredding a spare copy at a green recycler recovers base materials at fifty percent yield (vs forty percent at safe-zone yellow units). Damaged copies repair at a Repair Bench for a fraction of recipe cost.
When comparing Instant Camera against related tools in Rust, craft copies once the blueprint is unlocked (15 seconds per craft) and recycle surplus spares at an unpowered radtown green recycler (fifty percent base efficiency) rather than a safe-zone yellow recycler (forty percent efficiency) to maximize recovered materials.
| Item | Category | Stack Limit | Craft / Source | Tech Tree / Research | Green Recycler Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instant Camera | Tools | 1 per slot | Crafted by hand | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
| Camera | Tools | 1 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Metal Detector | Tools | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | 30 node / 150 path | Not recyclable |
| Torch | Tools | 1 per slot | Crafted by hand | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
Compare Instant Camera with closely related tool sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Instant Camera against every item in its inventory category, browse All 36 items in Tools.
The Instant Camera comes with the Summer Pack DLC in Rust. It is crafted by hand from 1 Gears and 75 Metal Fragments. Players smelt raw ores in a furnace and gather required components from monument crates before queuing the craft at their workbench.
The Instant Camera recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into a 50% chance of Gears and 37 Metal Fragments plus a 50% chance of one more. Undamaged copies return the full listed yield, whereas worn items scale their recycler output down in proportion to remaining durability.
The Instant Camera takes 15 seconds to craft, down to 3.75 seconds at Workbench Level 2 or 3 in Rust. It belongs to the Tools category under numeric ID -2001260025 across 36 tools and despawns after 1 hour when dropped on a default server.
A repair bench fixes the Instant Camera from broken for 20 Metal Fragments in Rust. Repairing at a Repair Bench requires no learned blueprint or rare component body, scaling material cost to missing durability while permanently capping maximum condition by 20% across a full repair.
The Instant Camera blueprint comes with the Summer Pack DLC, so owners craft it without researching it in Rust. Researching it anyway costs 10 scrap at a Research Table. It sits in the Tools catalog with item ID -2001260025 alongside 35 related tools.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Instant Camera despawns after 1 hour by default. Picking it back up into a player inventory or storing it inside a base container immediately resets that ground despawn timer, which the server scales by item rarity tier.
The Instant Camera has 32-bit signed item ID -2001260025 and shortname tool.instant_camera in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Tools category (stack limit 1 unit per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Instant Camera in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give tool.instant_camera 1 or inventory.giveid -2001260025 1 for a single unit. Both console spawn commands require administrator or moderator privileges on the server, while regular players can bind a quick-craft shortcut key instead.